Donald Trump falsely questions Kamala Harris' race as he appears at gathering of Black journalists

some_guy , 6 hours ago

He compared the 2021 insurrection to the protests in Minneapolis and other cities in 2020 following the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and to more recent protests at the Capitol last week by demonstrators opposed to the war in Gaza. Trump falsely claiming that no one was arrested in those other demonstrations and that only his supporters were targeted.

As Trump made the comparison, a man in the back of the room shouted out: “Sir, have you no shame?”

None. Literally none at all.

samus12345 , 5 hours ago

“Haven’t you been paying attention? No, I have no shame. Nobody has less shame than I do, everyone is saying it.”

That might be one superlative I’d actually believe if he said it.

someguy3 , 2 hours ago

This is what Fox and crew have been doing the whole time. Good old whataboutism.

njm1314 , 5 hours ago

Wow who could have seen this one coming? Trump used this platform they gave him to spread racist evil shit. What a PR disaster for them and a PR Boone for Trump.

Nurgle , 3 hours ago

I’m not sure this was quite the boon for Trump. He hasn’t faced anything but soft ball Fox News reporters for years, and just made headlines for pitching a fit after being interviewed by actual journalists

flerp , 2 hours ago

The people who are into evil racist shit already know everything he has to say on that front. The people who aren’t into the evil racist shit but only watch other specific sources that don’t show it, don’t normally get to see that side of him.

njm1314 , 45 minutes ago

First of all anyone who doesn’t know Trump’s into evil racist shit by now is unreachable and that seems like a moot point to me. But again the message of this event is not in the people who watched it. It’s the victory of Association. Trump to his base; see the blacks had me in to tell them the truth and now they know how it really is. That’s going to be the message. And there are going to be a few racist that he’s going to reach with this who might not have voted before. People who weren’t inspired by the idea of voting against old man Joe Biden are going to be paying a little more attention now.

Liberals and leftists have never understood this about conservative politics. Conservatives completely control narratives. Actual events actual facts never matter. That’s exactly why for instance they wanted that audio testimony of Joe Biden when they already had the transcripts. Same exact thing. It’s not about what’s actually said it’s about the easy picture the easy sound clip the easy message. You can’t give them easy openings. You have to make them work for it. When they have to sell their people on fax and arguments and policies they fail.

Flatworm7591 , 5 hours ago

Kamala Harris was “Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person.”

– Donald Trump

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/a5dcc3f6-0e02-4bd6-8333-cf39d747fe50.webp

Source: PolitiFact

SeaJ OP , 3 hours ago

I wonder if this is why he stopped donating to her campaigns…

Passerby6497 , 2 hours ago

“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said

“I didn’t know about this thing, so it didn’t happen until I knew about it” is a concept my child needs to learn about, not a presidential candidate…

norimee , 2 hours ago

He doesn’t understand how sombody can be more than one thing. Because everyone around him is so one dimensional.

Indian mother and a black father and still American? How is this possible?! Its nearly as if she fell out of a coconut tree.

ripcord , 14 minutes ago

Who knew that health care could be so complicated? No one.

fmstrat , 2 hours ago

The FOX reporting of this event is just sad.

“Sir, have you no shame?”